Any advice(s) about use of KDE on old hardware...?

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dirks

Beginner

Posts: 11

Location: Germany

Occupation: Programmer

Friday, March 2nd 2007, 11:47am

Any advice(s) about use of KDE on old hardware...?

... except "buy new one" of course ;-)

A few weeks ago my main system broke and I was forced to use an "emergency PC" with a Pentium at 166MHz, 128MB RAM and an S3v64+ graphics card with 2MB RAM, no sound at all. A real emergency...

Now that my main system is fixed and the emergency is over:

Are there any advices about how to make KDE as lightweight as possible and(/or?) as fast as possible?

One might think that older KDE versions might be better on this, is this generally true or would it be possible to tune/strip a newer version to faster than an older one?

Any hints are very welcome, external links to hints about are fine.

I would like to make the old system as user-friendly as possible, provided that I don't "overload the hardware's capabilities". Of course I know about simple windowmanagers like fwm/twm and XFCE but KDE would be preferred...

TIA
D.

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Rinse

Professional

Posts: 797

Friday, March 2nd 2007, 12:22pm

I'v had kde 3.3 runnning on a p 166 with 64 mb ram and 2 mb graphics, with a previous version of kubuntu.

It run quite well

What you should do is choose a light weight linux distribution.
in kde, deactivate all eye candy, like transparency, background images, animations, etc..

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